Why Bruce Hwy crash congestion fix was ignored

A QUICK-FIX solution to the Bruce Highway gridlock was handed in three years ago by the forensic crash investigator tasked with sifting through the grizzly remains of a fatal crash.

Garry Church, who investigated some of the most horrific Sunshine Coast road crashes and was 2013 Citizen of the Year, came up with the solution as he was "fed up" with being told to reopen the Bruce Hwy.

"I was getting so bloody angry that every time we had a fatality, I would be told to hurry up and open the road up," Mr Church said.

But his solution, which eerily mirrors a suggestion by Sunshine Coast Daily Deputy Editor Damian Bathersby, was "laughed at".